Word: faa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...growing trade deficit and faster inflation threaten the expansion. -- The FAA cracks down. -- U. S. publishing' s French accent...
...Watson's statement was intended to show that Zvonek was a good pilot, the FAA was not so much impressed as it was dismayed by the unusual training procedure. Continental said the Watson method was not approved by the company. The carrier intends to find out if any of its other pilots test one another by purposely making mistakes before taking...
...been involved in seven crashes and 56 deaths since November. By comparison, during the period 1980-86 commuter airlines averaged only 26 fatalities a year. Last week T. Allan McArtor, chief of the Federal Aviation Administration, announced a six-month probe into what appears to be an ominous trend. FAA inspectors will single out the 20% of 173 U.S. carriers with the worst safety problems, then make in-depth field inspections of those airlines. One bit of suspicious evidence has already turned up: apparently the first indication of cocaine use by a commercial pilot who was involved in a fatal...
Meanwhile Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole announced that the FAA will require the 14 largest air carriers to report how often each flight is more than 15 minutes late for any cause except a mechanical problem. The flights will then be assigned a code that will show up on the computers of ticket and travel agents; travelers who ask will be given some idea of the reliability of the schedule for each flight. Similar reports will be required on the frequency of lost, delayed, damaged or pilfered baggage...
...ultimate determination of a "probable cause" is made by the full NTSB after a public meeting that may not be held for nine to twelve months. Whatever the cause of the Detroit disaster, the doubts and conflicting reports are unnerving for airline passengers and officials alike. Notes newly appointed FAA Administrator T. Allan McArtor: "You work so hard to build into your system safety margins, procedures, mechanisms to deal with the human frailty. When these break down, it just stuns...